Montipora dying

Deanster12 · Aug 24, 2022

Is this Montipora okay as some parts are turning white, it’s quite low down in the tank and the parameters are perfect

Coral Your World · Aug 24, 2022

What are “perfect” parameters. Never heard of such a thing.

Try posting a pic with white light. Can’t really see what’s going on

Deanster12 · Aug 24, 2022

Okay 1.025 salinity
Calc is 420
Mag is 1350
Phosphate 0.03
Nitrate 2
Alk 9
Temp is 78

Crustaceon · Sep 15, 2022

Part of your parameters is lighting and flow.

sfin52 · Sep 15, 2022

That needs to be in higher flow and light

All Around Auto Care · Sep 25, 2022

Deanster12 said:
Okay 1.025 salinity
Calc is 420
Mag is 1350
Phosphate 0.03
Nitrate 2
Alk 9
Temp is 78

I did a water change and all of my montipora turned completely white in three days… I tested a ton of times. The green Monty looked like it was about to suffer the same fate as the red ones. I took a water sample to LFS as my testing showed all parameters as they have been. Found out that my hydrometer was off. My entire tank (125G) had 1.020 when hydrometer showed 1.026. This just happened. Because of the montipora dying my ammonia spiked. Now my BTAs aren’t happy and cruising around my tank. My hammers are receded into their skeletons. I did a big water change and now salinity is 1.023. I will recover evaporated water with salt water until testing at 1.025. I hope the come back and I can get ammonia under control.

Tim'sReef · Sep 25, 2022

Check for montipora eating nudibranch at night. Took me a little while before I spotted them cause they like to hang out underneath the coral.

Took out almost all of the montipora in my tank.